Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.